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Love wine and single?

House Wine is inviting all single men and women out for a glass of wine in a relaxed, casual, pre-Valentine mingler featuring grape varieties that do well solo from North America and Europe.

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House Wine is inviting all single men and women out for a glass of wine in a relaxed, casual, pre-Valentine mingler featuring grape varieties that do well solo from North America and Europe. It all takes place Wednesday, February 13 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Listel Hotel on Robson. Tickets are $40, and you can secure yours at www.housewine.ca.

The inaugural Okanagan Food & Wine Film Festival launches September 13-15 at the Rotary Centre for the Arts with the Mary Irwin Theatre as home base in Kelowna. All films will be food and/or wine focused and ticket holders will also eat and drink what they see on the screen. The plan is to showcase both feature length and short films from the valley and around the world hosted by a local “expert” on the film subject who will introduce the film and host the Q&A at its conclusion. Organizers plan to screen five widely acclaimed feature documentaries from the future of small-scale farming to the successful pursuit of the mysterious Master Sommelier Exam. Short films will be solicited and selected through the online film submission service WithoutaBox, beginning in March. People’s Choice Awards will be given to the favourite films along with a $500 cash prize. You can follow festival developments at twitter.com/okfoodwinefilm and on facebook.com/okfoodwinefilmfest.

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